Quotes About Art

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

The evolution of art is not only driven by artists, but by a conversation between the artists and the audience.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

I make a film - and once I've made it, everyone comes along and says 'Ah! This is a film that's political, or social', or whatever. But I'm not telling the story that they see. I made a film, told a story, but I wasn't thinking about exactly what it all meant.

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

With 'Dil Chahta Hai' being the first film and 'Lakshya' being the second, what people can expect from Excel Entertainment as a company, and from me as a director, is just good, clean entertainment. And hopefully, some residue of an idea or thought that you can take home and mull over.

Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.

Dance excites me.

I was born to be an actor and I haven't exhausted myself in this particular field.

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I don't exist without writing.

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

Hollywood exists only for the B-movies. The best things are coming from Europe.